#adivasis — Public Fediverse posts

Colonial and casteist ideas still shape criminalisation and policing in India

The disproportionate policing and incarceration of Denotified Tribes and other caste-oppressed communities must be understood as a result of colonial and Brahminical power, writes Nikita Sonawane.

#dalits #adivasis #casteism #CasteistPolicies #DenotifiedTribes #CriminalTribesAct #brahminism #policing #law #CasteDiscrimination #india

https://www.himalmag.com/colonial-brahminical-order-caste-carcerality-criminalisation-police-abolition-india/

What starvation could mean for Adivasi communities in the first decade of the 21st century

An excerpt from ‘Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales of India’, by Annie Zaidi.

https://scroll.in/article/1054052/what-starvation-could-mean-for-adivasi-communities-in-the-first-decade-of-the-21st-century

#BookExcerpt #AnnieZaidi #adivasis #malnutrition #starvation #poverty #tribals #books #bookstodon #nonfiction #india

Umar Khalid, the Historian: His Continued Imprisonment Is a Loss to the Academic World

Even for someone who worked extensively on Adivasi history, his thesis 'Contesting Claims and Contingencies of Rule: Singhbhum 1800 – 2000' offers new insights, writes Nandini Sundar.

#UmarKhalid #activism #dissent #HumanRights #UAPA #censorship #FreeSpeech #academia #DelhiPogrom #DelhiRiots #muslims #adivasis #history #india

https://thewire.in/rights/umar-khalid-the-historian-his-continued-imprisonment-is-a-loss-to-the-academic-world